Pounder washing-machine.



N FULCHER & J. H. PICKETT.

POUNDER WASHlNG MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.2I. 1914.

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N. FULCHER &J, H. PICKETT.

POUNDER WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION mu) SEPT. 21. I914.

Patented May 18, 1915.

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N. FULCHER & J. H. PICKETT.

POUNDER WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.2I. 1914.

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UNTTE STAT AEN NELSON FULCI-IER AND JOHN HERBERT PICKETT, OF SAULT STE. MARIE, ONTARIO, CANADA.

POUNDER WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 18, 1915.

Application filed September 21, 1914. Serial No. 862,693.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, NELSON FULCI-IER and JOHN HERBERT PIoKE'rT, both subjects of the King of Great Britain, and residents of Sault Ste. Marie, in the Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pounder ashing-Machines, of which the following is the specification.

This invention relates'to improvements in vacuum washing machines and the objects of the invention are to provide means for rapidly effecting the washing of a considerable quantity of clothes, to enable a plurality of washing elements to be mechanically perated and arranged to operate uniformly on different parts of the clothes in the tub.

Further objects are to improve and simplify the operating mechanism to cause the washing elements. to be alternately raised and lowered and at the same time moved in a circular path within the tub.

Further objects still are to improve the construction of the washing elements to better insure that the washing water is forced through the clothes.

It consists essentially of the improved construction hereinafter described in detail in the accompanying specification and drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of an embodiment of the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation taken at right angles to Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail through one of the washing elements or pounders.

In the drawings like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A represents any suitable form of receptacle for the clothes to be washed, such as a tub.

B represents the supporting frame secured to the top of the tub in any suitable way.

The form of connection I have illustrated comprises a tub hinge including a bracket 11 secured to the frame B and a hinge clamp 12 adapted to be secured to the tub. On the opposite side of the frame a clamp 13 is provided also, adapted to engage and clamp the edge of the tub.

The frame B is provided at the bottom with a ring 14: from which posts 15 extend upwardly and are connected at the top by cross bars 16 and 17.

One of the uprights 15 support and journal the driving crank C, the inner end of which is connected to a driving pinion 20 adapted to mesh with an annular gear D, which annular gear carries the washing elements E. These washing elements are each supported from depending arms 21, the upper ends of which are mounted on cranks 22 on a crank shaft 23, the ends of the crank shafts being journaled in posts 24 and 25 which are secured to and extend downwardly from the annular gear D, the lower extremities of the posts being connected and strengthened by a cross bar 26.

This cross bar has perforations 26 through which the supporting arms 21 of the washing members extend and slide. In this way a rocking as well as an up and down motion is given to the washing members.

To provide adjustment of the depth to which the washing element will be forced, the arms 21 are formed in two sections 27 and 28 telescoping together and adapted to be clamped together by a bolt and thumb nut 29.

To cause the crank shaft 23 to be turned when the gear D is turned, a gear F is provided on the crank shaft adapted to mesh with an annular gear G which is fixedly secured to the frame B whereby as the gear F is carried around with the gear D it will be wired with the crank shaft 23 by the gem: G, the latter remaining stationary. The gear G also rotatably supports the gear D which latter may be termed the rotary gear, this being accomplished by an annular flange on the gear G which extends into an annular recess 51 on the gear D. Suitable ball bearings 52 may be provided between the rotary gear and the cross bars 16 and 17. In this way the washing elements will be reciprocated up and down and also moved in a circular path on the inside of the tub, while seldom striking in the same place.

Additional support may be given to the frame B by means of a suitable brace 40 which may extend to any suitable support, when the machine is turned on hinge 10.

The construction of the washing elements E is shown in Fig. 4. Each is conical in form and provided with a partition 30 near partition is also formed with perforations 35.

the top, formed with a central perforation 31, the upper side of which forms a seat for the ball 32. The ball itself is supported in a tub2e133, which forms an extension of the arm The. tube 33 is formed with perforations 34: through which the water may flow and the portion of the conical member above the To provide for cleaning of the interior of the upper end of the conical member aslidmgdoor 36 1s provided in the side thereof.

' It may be stated'tha't the construction of washer worked upwardly and downwardly in a pounding action on the clothes. On the down stroke the -water forces the dirt out'of'the'clothes and on the upward stroke the vacuum causes a suction through the clothes which also assists in removing the dirt therefrom. i 'It will be seen that the ball 32 permits water to "flow "through the conical member on the down "stroke,fbu't prevents flowing throughit 'on the up stroke and thereby creates 'a vacuum o'n theunderside of the conicalvacuum member, I I r As many'changes could bemade 'in the above construction and many apparently widely difierent embodiments of my invention, "within the scope of "the claims, constructed without dep arting from the spirit or scopethereof, it is intended that all matter'contained in the accompanying specification and drawings shall be interpretedfas illustratedand'not in a limiting *sense. What weclaim as our invention is:

I 1'. In a washing machine, a stationary frame, a supporting element revolubly 'depending therefromya crank shaft 'journaled. in said supporting element, clothes pounders suspended fromjs'a'id crank shaft, manual means carried'by said stationary frame for directly rotating said "supporting element, and means whereby the rotation of said element causes'said crankshaft to-revolvein itsjour'nals to" operateth'e pounders. 7

2. Ina washing machine and in combination, a supporting member adapted'to'be clamped to the edge'of a itub, an annular gear fixed to thesu'pporting member, a second annular.'gear supported with "freedom Copies of thIS iMteiifi may be thtain'ed fo'r to turn from the supporting member, a crank I carried by the annular gear which a gear on the crank shaft meshing and clothes shaft turns, with the fixed annular gear,

washing elements carried by the crank shaft.

' 3. In a washing machine and in combina- -t1on,=fixed annular gear, a rotary annular gear supported therefrom, means for turn--.

' mounted in *the frame, a gear on the crank shaft meshing-with the fixed annular gear,

a plurality of clothes washing'elements, and

means connecting the clothes-washing .ele- V mentswith the crank.

' In 'a'wash'ing-machine and :in combina- 7 tion, a fixed annular 7 gear, a rotary @annular gear 'mounted, therefrom, a frame carried by thvrotary a n l e r, a crank shaft mounted in 'the frame, a gear on the. crank shaft meshing with the fixed annular gear, a pl'ural'ity'ofclotheswashing elements, and.

adjustable means connecting :the clothes washing elements with the cranks.

6. A washing machine comprising in ;combination, V 7 ring, a plurality of uprights, cross barsat the top connecting the "uprights, clamps connect'etl' to -'oppos1te sides of the ring a' supportingmember including a r adapted-to be Clamped'toitheIedgeof a pail,

an annular gear supported ifrom"the-cross bars-having an jannular'flange, a rota-ryganp'ost-s extending downwardly, *from :the "ro tary annular gear, a crossbar connecting nulargear supported onfthe annular-flange,

the "posts, crank-"shaft fj'ournaled- .-'m the v posts, agear on the crank 'shafti meshing with the fixed gear, washing clothes 1 pounders-and arms connecting the clothes .pound ers "with ithe' cranks, substantially as and for the PUIPOSGBSPGCIfiGd. I I V In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence ofjtwo-witnesses.

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